If you think that this stuff doesn’t go on any more, take an hour out to watch the video of the event and you will see that it very much does. A woman called Amelia tells the shocking story of what happened to her when she told her employers she was pregnant.

The video is available on Maternity Action’s You Tube channel here. Unfortunately, it’s not embeddable here, but do go and watch it.

Here are some tweets from the event:

The number of women adversely affected each year is staggering:

54,000 women a year are forced out of their jobs as a consequence of workplace discrimination. Less than 1% go to tribunal #maternityrights